FICC Boosts Sponsored Trades with New Collateral Flexibility
Published Date: 11/20/2025
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Summary
The Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) is adding a new option called Collateral-in-Lieu to its Sponsored GC Service, letting members use different types of collateral. They’re also expanding the service so members can clear special “done-away” trades more easily. This change affects financial firms using FICC’s services and aims to make trading smoother, with no extra costs announced yet.
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New Collateral-in-Lieu (CIL) Option
FICC will establish a Collateral-in-Lieu (CIL) offering within its Sponsored GC Service that lets a Sponsoring Member grant FICC a lien on Purchased GC Repo Securities. That lien is intended to largely obviate the need for FICC to collect initial margin for Sponsored GC CIL Trades, reducing margin and capital costs for intermediaries and increasing access for registered investment companies and other cash providers to FICC's clearance and settlement system for repo transactions.
Clearing of Done-Away Sponsored GC Trades
FICC is expanding the Sponsored GC Service to allow a Sponsoring Member to submit for clearing a "done-away" Sponsored GC Trade (a Sponsored GC Trade between its Sponsored Member and either a Netting Member other than the Sponsoring Member or another Indirect Participant of any Netting Member). The change is intended to make it easier for sponsoring members to clear these done-away transactions through FICC.
Liquidation Rule Updates for Done-Away Trades
Partial Amendment No. 1 revises GSD Rule 3A (Section 18(a), re-numbered as Section 16 under a related filing) to clarify that liquidation provisions apply to both done-with and done-away transactions, including Sponsored GC CIL Trades. It also adds references in Sections 18(b) and (c) to Sponsored GC Trades, Sponsored GC CIL Trades, and the Sponsored GC CIL Omnibus Account to align with a separate Default Management proposed rule change.
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